Welcome to the developer section of Mustard Lab. This area of the site is maintained by Sean Christmann, the lead developer at Mustard Lab, and is intended to be a central resource of articles and tutorials on development issues related to studio projects. To learn more about Mustard Lab projects or corporate information, please visit http://www.mustardlab.com or click on the robot in the upper right corner of the page.
Flash Articles
Rich Text Html Editor(currently offline) - Flash rich text editors are quite abundant now, but most appear to be an exercise in flexing flash muscles rather than usable integration with the web. This editor focuses on seamless visual integration and clean xhtml output.
Extending Flash Usability = Good
2003-10-08 Embedding Flash in XHTML - Working with Eolas restrictions in Internet Explorer for embedding Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime and other media objects
2003-09-15 Universal Javascript->Flash Comm - Set Flash variables from Javascript in all current PC and Mac browsers
2003-08-05 Flash Player Detection - Detection function to return the users currently installed flash player.
2003-05-16 Object Resize - Change the size of a Flash stage on the fly.
2003-05-04 Countdown Loader - Countdown timer for any loadable object in Flash.
2003-04-27 Mousewheel Support - Using IE 6 events to scroll Flash textfields.
2003-03-29 Predictive Loading - Method for cutting down on the amount of time users spend staring at loading bars.
Javascript + DHTML Articles
2003-08-05 Flash Player Detection - Detection function to return the users currently installed flash player.
2003-06-30 Simple, Portable Image Rollovers - Preload and use rollovers without being tied to functions in the document <head>
Link Bin
/test/ - No guarantee on help for anything you find in there, it's the place I upload random files I might be testing out. Happy scavenging!
- Proto.Layer51 - Extending Flash
- Devshed - PHP Tutorials
- Developer.Irt - Javascript FAQ
- Senocular - Superb Flash Examples
- YoungPup - DHTML Tools
- PHP.NET - PHP Reference
- W3Schools - CSS & (X)HTML Reference
Public forums you'll find me lurking around
- Were-Here - Anything and everything Flash related. I also moderate the Actionscript forum.
- Twelvestone - Highly competent Flash discussions about OOP, hacking together advanced functionality, and integration with other web technologies.
- Bit-101 - Advanced Flash development.
- YayHooray Tech - Find help on pretty much any tech issue, or hang out if you feel like jumping into the age old Mac vs PC debate.
